Arizona Republican Party Like It's 1864
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
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Summary
Episode 1022
Courts in Arizona and Florida have both ended abortion rights in very different (but both terrible) ways this month. Did Arizona actually resurrect a 160-year law passed decades before it was even a state? And how weird can it get when you go full originalist on a law that is younger than most people in Florida?
Before we get there, Matt opens by sharing his experience with the OJ Simpson trial at the age of 14 and how it shaped his understanding of US criminal law. We then make sure to pay appropriate respects to the violent domestic abuser who (do we even have to say "allegedly" anymore?) brutally murdered Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994.
Also, two different countries have committed extreme and unprecedented violations of international law involving embassies in the past week. How does the Vienna Convention protect diplomatic posts, and what actually happens when these international agreements are broken?
The first of the Trump trials will finally begin in New York in one business day! How does jury selection even work in a case where everyone on the planet has an opinion about the defendant?
1) Planned Parenthood v Florida (4/1/24)
2) In Re: TW, 551 So. 2d 1186 (1989)
3) Planned Parenthood of AZ v. Mayes (4/9/24)
3) The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)
4) Judge Merchan's letter to the parties in NY v. Trump outlining jury selection process
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sorry which of us went to law school We don't have to work with any lawyer we don't want and that means you're fired. |
| 0:22.8 | Why is it only the witnesses must swear to tell the whole truth? |
| 0:30.6 | Why isn't the same oath administered to the attorneys? |
| 0:34.0 | And there he is, he's nothing. |
| 0:37.0 | It's the Emperor without clothes. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to opening Arguments. |
| 0:43.0 | The Podcasts where a comedian takes lawyers to court. |
| 0:46.0 | Don't take ethics advice from Alan Dershowitz. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1, 2022. I'm your |
| 0:56.5 | host Thomas. That over there is your co-host Matt Cameron. How you doing, Matt? |
| 1:00.3 | I think I'm angry, Thomas. Is this what it feels like. Holy shit sound the alarm |
| 1:04.3 | Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie. That's angry everybody. Yeah like a special sound effect or something just to |
| 1:08.8 | warn you that I'm gonna raise my voice just a little bit just a few decibels more it's it's like all the news |
| 1:15.3 | decided to wait until you graduated from anger lesson school it's perfect it's good |
| 1:19.9 | timing yeah no not great news today. |
| 1:22.8 | Not great news. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.4 | So we've got two big decisions to look at that both ban abortion |
| 1:27.4 | and their states. |
| 1:27.9 | We've got two more states have lost their reproductive rights |
| 1:30.9 | in the space of nine days, April 1st and April 9th, so that's not great. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah, I definitely heard about the Arizona one and was paying attention to it and then I honestly |
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